Author and
Founder, President and CEO of Sapoznik Insurance, Emerges as A Powerful Voice
In Healthcare, Stressing Education and Corporate Wellness

Miami Beach, FL – November 9, 2015 - It’s
happened to companies across the nation. Many have seen healthcare costs
increase by double digits in a single year.

In
the midst of this volatile time, when companies and their employees are
increasingly worried about rising premiums and many health insurance companies
are being absorbed in a wave of mergers and acquisitions, Rachel Sapoznik – who launched her unique
Employee Benefits Solutions Agency in 1987 – stands out as a passionate voice
emphasizing the value and necessity of education and wellness in helping manage
costs. “It didn’t take me long to
realize that education was the component missing from our heatlthcare system,”
she says.

Driven
by her founding core values of empowering employees to achieve physical and
financial well-being, the South Florida based business maverick has championed
the cause of personal responsibility in health and wellness as the main
struggle facing healthcare providers and insurers.

A
powerful advocate for the reality that health maintenance and personal
accountability are the keys to transforming the healthcare system, Rachel and
her dedicated team of 64 benefit consultants and support staff have created a
powerful niche in the industry by integrating an extensive wellness platform
(including regular educational fairs, employee support groups and
transformative programs for clients) into their customized solution and claim
service.

Having
implemented their programs for clients in Florida, California, South Carolina,
New York and other states, Sapoznik Insurance – which Rachel started out of her house
not long after leaving her stint as a top insurance agent and valuable mentor
at John Hancock Financial - has generated over $125,000,000 in premiums.

Under
Rachel’s direction, the Miami based company has become a landmark in South
Florida. It has been recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as one of
the ten largest insurance agencies in the region, and the 16th
largest Woman-Owned Business. In 2014, the same publication designated it as
one of the region’s “Top 100 Private Companies while honoring Rachel as one of
their “Influential Business Women.” Sapoznik Insurance & Associates has
also been designated as one of the top philanthropic companies in South
Florida.

Rachel
believes her company’s success is due to the passion that she and her team have
for positively changing people’s lives – and their willingness to push
conventional industry “envelopes,” so to speak, to accomplish their goals. “I
like to say they don’t work for me, but with me,” she says. “We truly care
about our clients and their employees and want to make sure we’re part of the
solution to get them on the road to wellness.”

Rachel
has spent her career educating employers that they can actually have more
influence on the health of their employees than even personal doctors can. She explains that because people spend so much of their
lives at work, creating an environment focused on wellness is imperative. Those
on the leadership team need to become champions of the corporate wellness
initiatives. As
people become healthier in their workplaces, health care costs come down and
stabilize. Fewer illnesses translates to fewer sick days taken, more
productivity and less “presentee-ism” among employees who show up, but don’t
feel well enough to be productive.

Rachel’s
passion for health and wellness emerged as a response to skyrocketing claims
costs that were primarily generated from preventable chronic illnesses like
diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure. She believed that if she could
contribute to attacking these illnesses and related conditions via preventative
solutions and regular screenings, she could keep insurance premiums down for
companies and their employees. For a decade and a half, Sapoznik Insurance has
brought medical professionals into work environments of client companies to
check (on a voluntary basis) employees’ blood pressure, cholesterol, BMI (Body
Mass Index) and weight.

Rachel
is excited about sharing her many years of health and wellness, healthcare and
insurance industry expertise in her upcoming book APassion For Wellness:
Healthy Employees, Healthy Bottom Line. The volume provides employers, business
owners, CEOs and leadership teams a guide to understanding how they can impact
their employees’ personal health, specifically from a wellness perspective. If
they can achieve this, they will be able to improve employee engagement and the
bottom line.